Counting Sheep : The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
by Martin, PaulEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-07-01
Publisher(s): Thomas Dunne Books
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Summary
oes the early bird really catch the worm, or end up healthy, wealthy, and wise? Can people exist on just a few hours' sleep? Does everybody dream? Do fish? Is anybody getting enough sleep? Even though we devote a third of our lives to sleep, we still know remarkably little about the performance of our body as we re-charge. Counting Sheep answers these questions and more. Even the wonders of yawning, the perils of sleepwalking, and the strange ubiquity of nocturnal erections are explained in full. Counting Sheep will help readers respect, understand, and more fully enjoy the time when they're lost to the world.
Author Biography
Paul Martin received a Ph.D. in behavioral biology at Cambridge University. He was a Harkness Fellow in the School of Medicine at Stanford and is the author of The Healing Mind.
Table of Contents
| Preliminaries | p. 1 |
| A third of life | p. 3 |
| Insufficiencies | p. 17 |
| Sleepy people | p. 19 |
| Dead tired | p. 52 |
| The golden chain | p. 74 |
| Mechanisms | p. 87 |
| The shapes of sleep | p. 89 |
| Morpheus undressed | p. 113 |
| Strange tales of erections and yawning | p. 132 |
| Friends and enemies of sleep | p. 142 |
| Dreams | p. 171 |
| The children of an idle brain? | p. 173 |
| A second life | p. 197 |
| Origins | p. 219 |
| From egg to grave | p. 221 |
| The reason of sleep | p. 240 |
| Problems | p. 255 |
| Bad sleepers | p. 257 |
| Dark night | p. 271 |
| Pickwickian problems | p. 291 |
| Pleasures | p. 313 |
| And so to bed | p. 315 |
| An excellent thing | p. 330 |
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